can't contact newserver news.gmain.org

[Richard E Miles]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:33:25 -0500
Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 02:24:39PM -0800, Richard E Miles wrote:
>  > I was trying to contact the news.gmain.org newsserver but was unable. I
>  > typed slrn -nntp -h news.gmain.org --create. It said:
>  > Reading startup file /etc/slrn.rc.
>  > Using newsrc file /home/rmiles/.jnewsrc for server news.gmain.org.
>  > Connecting to host news.gmain.org ...Failed to resolve news.gmain.org
>  > slrn fatal error:
>  > Failed to initialize server.
>  > 
>  > How do I use this news service? 
>  > I also did a ping news.gmain.org and got unknown address.
> 
> I think its 'gmane', not 'gmain'
> 
> 		Dave
> 
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You are right. My mistake. Sorry.

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